Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Introduction to the Critical Study of Homer by Professor Allen...
...Homer, Shakespeare and Dante are closely bound together, though their methods of expression differed widely. Homer is plain and direct in the substance of his thought, and in the expression of it. With Shakespeare it is different. His characters have lost the simplicity of the older race. He is neither plain and direct in thought, nor in expression. Each of these poets, however, showed to us the scene of life without the interference of their own personalities. They showed us nature as reflected in a mirror. Dante is both a poet and a moralist. He is not content to give...
...Should Homer be taught in preparatory schools...
...White Sp., W. E. Hutton '95, C. A. Ross '95, N. P. Dodge '95, C. H. Beckwith L. S., J. P. Auten '97, J. P. Warren '96, W. M. Trotter '95, F. P. Pollak '96, W. S. Youngman '95, S. P. Delaney '96, F. R. Steward '96, S. J. Homer L. S., E. P. Williams...
...this time the ethical conceptions were very imperfectly developed, but now the growth of an ethical motive began. Homer represented the dead in an under world, and beyond Oceanus. The Erinnyes were mentioned as the punishers of perjurers after death. We find also accounts of the sufferings of the Titans for evil done during their lives. Then we read on the other hand of the beauty and glory of the Elysian plain, where the sons of the gods meet. Scepticism was frequent and widespread in the third and fourth centuries...